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Tammy Faye Messner

タミー・フェイ　/　たみー・ふぇい

American singer

March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007　・　International Falls, Minnesota, United States

Minnesota
singer
entrepreneur
actor

My Take

Tammy Faye remains one of the most fascinating figures I have encountered in American pop-religious history. A singer and televangelist from frozen International Falls, Minnesota, she co-built an empire and a Christian theme park, then watched it all collapse in scandal. What stays with me is not the spectacle but her resilience and her warmth; even disgraced, she kept her faith and her famously emotional candor. Her heavy makeup became a punchline, yet beneath it was someone strikingly unguarded. She sang, she preached, she sold, she endured until her death in 2007. I find her messy honesty oddly moving.

Overview

Tamara Faye Messner (previously Bakker, née LaValley; March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007) was an American evangelist. She co-founded the televangelist program The PTL Club with her then-husband Jim Bakker in 1974. They had hosted their own puppet-show series for local programming in the early 1960s; Messner also had a career as a recording artist. In 1978, she and Bakker built Heritage USA, a Christian theme park.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Tammy Faye Messner
Name (Japanese): タミー・フェイ
Reading: たみー・ふぇい
Born: March 7, 1942 – July 20, 2007
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Pisces / Horse
Origin: International Falls, Minnesota, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: singer / entrepreneur / actor / writer

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: North Central University

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

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6. Links

Official sitehttps://tammyfaye.com/
Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammy%20Faye%20Messner

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